Hacker News with Generative AI: OpenAI

Show HN: My LLM CLI tool can run tools now, from Python code or plugins (simonwillison.net)
LLM 0.26 is out with the biggest new feature since I started the project: support for tools. You can now use the LLM CLI tool—and Python library—to grant LLMs from OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and local models from Ollama with access to any tool that you can represent as a Python function.
OpenAI, Python, Tools
529 points by simonw 31 days ago | 165 comments
UAE becomes first to offer ChatGPT Plus to every resident and citizen (thearabianstories.com)
Dubai: The move is part of a sweeping new partnership with OpenAI under the ambitious “Stargate UAE” initiative to build the largest AI supercomputing cluster on the planet.
Artificial Intelligence, UAE, OpenAI, Partnerships
12 points by domh 32 days ago | 2 comments
We broke down the Sam Altman and Jony Ive video (sfstandard.com)
OpenAI’s $6.5 billion acquisition of Jony Ive’s AI-device startup io was accompanied by what could best be described as an engagement-party sizzle reel starring the iPhone designer and Sam Altman.
OpenAI, Acquisitions, Artificial Intelligence, Design, Video
63 points by herbertl 33 days ago | 76 comments
Black Mirror was a warmup act - OpenAI pivots into hardware (garymarcus.substack.com)
A very short story, in three acts
OpenAI, Hardware, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Science Fiction
15 points by mdp2021 35 days ago | 5 comments
Ask HN: AI Reading List (ycombinator.com)
In the thread about John Carmack presentation, somebody mentioned the reading list he got from Ilya which were crucial to understand what matters and the current state of the knowledge (at the time).<p>After some googling, it seems like this list is plausible, although not confirmed: https://github.com/dzyim/ilya-sutskever-recommended-reading?tab=readme-ov-file<p>What would an actualized list look today ?
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Reading Lists, OpenAI, Deep Learning
13 points by TheAlchemist 35 days ago | 4 comments
Sam and Jony and Skepticism (sixcolors.com)
Ever since OpenAI announced a couple of days ago that it’s integrating Jony Ive’s hardware startup, I’ve been struggling with what to write about it.
Jony Ive, OpenAI, Hardware Startups, Apple, Skepticism
7 points by danaris 35 days ago | 0 comments
OpenAI: Scaling PostgreSQL to the Next Level (pixelstech.net)
At the PGConf.dev 2025 Global Developer Conference, Bohan Zhang from OpenAI shared OpenAI’s best practices with PostgreSQL, offering a glimpse into the database usage of one of the most prominent unicorn companies.
Database Management, PostgreSQL, AI Companies, OpenAI
190 points by thunderbong 35 days ago | 139 comments
Google faces a dilemma: improve Google Search or go beyond it? (eshumarneedi.com)
At last year’s I/O developer conference, Google played catch-up to OpenAI after being caught off-guard by the Silicon Valley start-up’s breakthrough ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot, first launched in the fall of 2022.
Google, Search Engines, Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI, ChatGPT
10 points by freediver 36 days ago | 0 comments
How I used o3 to find a remote 0-day vulnerability in the Linux kernel (ksmbd) (heelan.io)
In this post I’ll show you how I found a zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel using OpenAI’s o3 model. I found the vulnerability with nothing more complicated than the o3 API – no scaffolding, no agentic frameworks, no tool use.
Security, Linux Kernel, AI, OpenAI, Zero-Day Vulnerability
17 points by seanheelan 36 days ago | 4 comments
OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive (bloomberg.com)
OpenAI is buying an AI device startup co-founded by Apple veteran designer Jony Ive in a nearly $6.5 billion all-stock deal.
OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Acquisitions, Startups, Business
818 points by minimaxir 37 days ago | 1126 comments
OpenAI co-founder wanted to build doomsday bunker to protect company scientists (nypost.com)
The co-founder of ChatGPT maker OpenAI proposed building a doomsday bunker that would house the company’s top researchers in case of a “rapture” triggered by the release of a new form of artificial intelligence that could surpass the cognitive abilities of humans, according to a new book.
Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI, Technology, Science Fiction, Doomsday
6 points by Luc 38 days ago | 0 comments
OpenAI's planned data center in Abu Dhabi would be bigger than Monaco (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI is poised to help develop a staggering 5-gigawatt data center campus in Abu Dhabi, positioning the company as a primary anchor tenant in what could become one of the world’s largest AI infrastructure projects, according to a new Bloomberg report.
OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Data Centers, Abu Dhabi
16 points by rntn 40 days ago | 3 comments
Patience too cheap to meter (seangoedecke.com)
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, famously said that his goal was to make intelligence “too cheap to meter”. Right now, buoyed by venture capital, we’re living in that world. Every human (with internet access) on the planet has free access to language models that are smart enough to assist with a wide variety of problems. And people are using it! ChatGPT has more traffic than Wikipedia1.
Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI, Technology, ChatGPT
76 points by swah 41 days ago | 25 comments
ChatGPT Codex: The Missing Manual (latent.space)
ChatGPT Codex is here - the first cloud hosted Autonomous Software Engineer (A-SWE) from OpenAI. Josh Ma and Alexander Embiricos tell us how to WHAM every codebase like a power user.
Programming, Software Engineering, OpenAI
3 points by Brajeshwar 41 days ago | 0 comments
Vibe Check: Codex – OpenAI's New Coding Agent (every.to)
Last night I shipped a new feature for Cora, Every’s AI-enabled email assistant. Cora is not a vibe-coded product: Its codebase is a 5,500-plus commit cathedral of Rails craftsmanship mostly from Kieran Klaassen, Cora’s general manager, our resident DHH. Needless to say, exactly zero previous commits are mine.
OpenAI, Coding, Artificial Intelligence, Programming, Software
5 points by Philpax 42 days ago | 1 comments
"We're Definitely Going to Build a Bunker Before We Release AGI" (theatlantic.com)
In the summer of 2023, Ilya Sutskever, a co-founder and the chief scientist of OpenAI, was meeting with a group of new researchers at the company.
Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, OpenAI
31 points by mdp2021 43 days ago | 8 comments
An MCP-powered agent in 50 lines of code (huggingface.co)
Artificial Intelligence, Programming, OpenAI, Generative AI
5 points by victormustar 43 days ago | 0 comments
Y Combinator says Google is a monopolist, no comment about its OpenAI ties (techcrunch.com)
Fabled startup investor and accelerator Y Combinator has some choice words for Google in an amicus brief it just submitted in the U.S.’s monopoly case against the search giant.
Y Combinator, Google, Antitrust, Monopolies, OpenAI
126 points by mastazi 45 days ago | 42 comments
OpenAI's Stargate project struggling to get off the ground, due to tariffs (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI’s ambitious Stargate data center project is facing delays thanks to tariff-related economic uncertainty, reports Bloomberg.
OpenAI, Data Centers, Tariffs, Technology, Business
99 points by speckx 45 days ago | 170 comments
Show HN: Airweave – Let agents search any app (github.com/airweave-ai)
Airweave is a tool that lets agents semantically search any app. It's MCP compatible and seamlessly connects any app, database, or API, to transform their contents into agent-ready knowledge.
AI, Search, Agents, OpenAI
176 points by lennertjansen 46 days ago | 40 comments
Python lib generates its code on-the-fly based on usage (github.com/cofob)
AutoGenLib is a Python library that automatically generates code on-the-fly using OpenAI's API.
Python, Code Generation, Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI
247 points by klntsky 47 days ago | 88 comments
OpenAI negotiates with Microsoft to unlock new funding and future IPO (ft.com)
OpenAI, Microsoft, Funding, IPO, Business
13 points by Alezz 47 days ago | 1 comments
Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball (privacyguides.org)
Last week, OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman announced in San Francisco that the World project he co-founded, formerly known as Worldcoin, is opening six stores across the United States, allowing users of the project's app to scan their eyeballs.
Privacy, Biometrics, OpenAI, Cryptocurrency, Technology
153 points by ChiptuneIsCool 48 days ago | 161 comments
Show HN: Code Claude Code (github.com/RVCA212)
A Python SDK for interacting with the Claude CLI tool.
Python, OpenAI, AI, Software
117 points by sean_ 48 days ago | 25 comments
Breaking Down Claude's 26k+ Token System Prompt (dbreunig.com)
A couple days ago, Ásgeir Thor Johnson convinced Claude to give up its system prompt. The prompt is a good reminder that chatbots are more than just their model. They’re tools and instructions that accrue and are honed, through user feedback and design.
AI, Chatbots, OpenAI
9 points by dbreunig 50 days ago | 0 comments
OpenAI Launches GitHub "Connector" for ChatGPT Deep Research (neowin.net)
OpenAI has introduced a new feature for its ChatGPT deep research tool: a connector that allows it to access and analyze content directly from a user's GitHub repositories.
OpenAI, ChatGPT, GitHub, Software
5 points by bundie 50 days ago | 0 comments
Altman testifies that OpenAI will release an Open Source model this Summer (youtube.com)
OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Open Source
23 points by jawiggins 50 days ago | 10 comments
Show HN: An AI-first visual editor using GPT-4o's GPT-image-1 model (img.ly)
We embedded OpenAI’s gpt-image-1 API into our CreativeEditor SDK, enabling users to generate and refine images directly in their creative workflow—no tool switching. This brings multimodal AI into real-world design tasks with seamless prompting, editing, and visual iteration.
Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Software, Design, OpenAI
23 points by buss_jan 50 days ago | 8 comments
OpenAI plans to cut Microsoft revenue share after restructuring (yahoo.com)
OpenAI has told investors it will share a smaller fraction of revenue with major backer Microsoft (MSFT) as it moves ahead with its restructuring, The Information reported on Tuesday.
OpenAI, Microsoft, Business, Revenue Sharing, Restructuring
4 points by cik 52 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Agents.erl (AI Agents in Erlang) (github.com/arthurcolle)
A comprehensive, distributed Erlang framework for OpenAI API integration with built-in supervision trees, dynamic API client generation, and tool execution.
Artificial Intelligence, Programming, Erlang, OpenAI
33 points by arthurcolle 52 days ago | 27 comments